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  1. Re:Help! Help! on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    I'd crank the heat and open the windows to increase energy usage and drag to speed up the process.

    Doesn't the Leaf use a heat pump for both heating and cooling? If so, cranking the AC would also work.

  2. Re:Help! Help! on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    The SAE's recommendation for this is 0.5-2 seconds. I think Toyota is considering a "push the button several times" scheme in addition to the "hold it down" scheme.

  3. Re:I don't like the control it takes away from you on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    I like the standard keys. And really, just because one manufacturer happened to use a defective part, we lose them? Key switches have been around for decade and are reliable. Just fix the reliability issue in that one model and that's it.

    It isn't one manufacturer. There have been over 20 million recalled vehicles due to ignition switch problems, from basically every manufacturer, over the last 30 years.

    That doesn't qualify as "reliable" in my book.

  4. Re:Help! Help! on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    Push the button and hold it for a few seconds.

  5. Re:Uh, that doesn't work on Lessig Launches a Super PAC To End All Super PACs · · Score: 5, Informative

    Do you think members of the US military will follow orders to shoot their countrymen?

    Yes.

  6. Re:RFID interlock on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 2

    So your argument consists of "I'm not competent enough to perform maintenance on a firearm".

  7. Re:Gun nuts on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    nothing restricts a locality/city/region from banning the things of their own initiative (see also Chicago, D.C, New York City, etc.)

    Aside from the minor fact that local-level bans of readily transportable objects are inherently futile unless you want to allow cities to set up border checkpoints.

  8. Re:and addons work on a new firefox? on Firefox 29: Redesign · · Score: 1

    I dislike change for the sake of change.

  9. Re:and addons work on a new firefox? on Firefox 29: Redesign · · Score: 1

    Hop into the addon's settings. There's numerous options allowing you to pick and choose what new stuff you want, such as the tab shape (you'll want one of the "squared tabs" options) and use the customize (right-click blank area of a toolbar) to move the icons out of the urlbar's toolbar.

    I honestly don't remember how I got the menu bar back, though I did it somehow

  10. Re:and addons work on a new firefox? on Firefox 29: Redesign · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes. This addon was specifically developed for FF29 to deal with the new GUI.

  11. Re:did you checked the video? on Firefox 29: Redesign · · Score: 5, Informative

    You might like the Classic Theme Restorer addon. Tabs back down, multiple bars, back/forward separated and arbitrarily movable, reload next to them, addon bar back at the bottom, and text labels on everything.

  12. Re:And As Usual... on OnePlus One Revealed: a CyanogenMod Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Is there a real need for an SD slot when you have 64GB of storage available?

    3 words : 4K video recording.

    It's an excellent way to watch your storage fill up at about 7 megabytes per second.

  13. Re:easy on OnePlus One Revealed: a CyanogenMod Smartphone · · Score: 1

    No. Accurate rebranding for Bell and Rogers.

  14. Re:easy on OnePlus One Revealed: a CyanogenMod Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Or Canada. Even Bull and Robbers offer BYOD plans.

  15. Re:1/8 and 240/8-255/8 on ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Addresses were being allocated at a rate of about 2 /8s per month just before IANA's pool was depleted back in 2011.

    If a new range of addresses became available, then, barring a policy shift, I would expect them to go at a similar rate, if not faster.

  16. Re:1/8 and 240/8-255/8 on ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 2

    Great. Wave your wand, fix every piece of internet infrastructure that regards those reserved addresses as unroutable, and we can put off exhaustion for about 9 months, at best.

    Anything you do to IPv4 is nothing but a short-term stop gap. The address space is simply too small for the modern internet.

  17. Re:Not going to be mainstream. on Google's Project Ara Could Bring PC-Like Hardware Ecosystem To Phones · · Score: 1

    Mainstream (iphone 5s) is 7.6mm thick and weighs. According to http://motorolaara.com/2013/10... it is probably about 9.3mm - effectively as chunky as a 2 year old device.

    How the hell is that at all relevant? Do you need that 1.7mm shaved off so it will fit into the pocket of your skinny jeans?

  18. Re:You are going to see that where Science conflic on The US Public's Erratic Acceptance of Science · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You also have a pretty fucked up understanding of Christianity

    So do a lot of Christians. See "Christian economics", "protestant work ethic", and similar.

    You might want to start with looking at who actually proposed the big bang theory in the first place, and until you do, shut the fuck up you ignorant twit.

    Yes, a Catholic priest. As a general rule, Catholics seem to be significantly more sane than various American protestant sects on several issues.

  19. Re:Still far too ambiguous on RCMP Arrest Canadian Teen For Heartbleed Exploit · · Score: 1

    Whoever got this on the books should be drawn and quartered.

    That would be Mulroney. "Mischief in relation to data" was added to the criminal code by the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1985.

  20. Re:Mischief in Relation to Data on RCMP Arrest Canadian Teen For Heartbleed Exploit · · Score: 4, Informative

    It does have a somewhat specific legal meaning.

    (1.1) Every one commits mischief who wilfully
            (a) destroys or alters data;
            (b) renders data meaningless, useless or ineffective;
            (c) obstructs, interrupts or interferes with the lawful use of data; or
            (d) obstructs, interrupts or interferes with any person in the lawful use of data or denies access to data to any person who is entitled to access thereto.
    ...
    (5) Every one who commits mischief in relation to data
            (a) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years; or
            (b) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

  21. Re:Becoming Canadian on Intuit, Maker of Turbotax, Lobbies Against Simplified Tax Filings · · Score: 1

    I need to ask because dealing with those rules are my day job – how do Canadians avoid constructive sales?

    For those who don’t know, in constructive sales one can “economically” sell a security (i.e. stock), extract the money from said sale, but delay the “actual” sell – and the associated taxes – indefinitely.

    I would think that the General Anti-Avoidance Rule in section 245 of the Income Tax Act would cover that kind of scheme.

    IANAA, etc.

  22. Re:Think of all those poor accountants! on Intuit, Maker of Turbotax, Lobbies Against Simplified Tax Filings · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes. Was one of the Ryan-as-president ones. Probably Executive Orders. I believe the Warren Buffet expy he appoints as SecTreas uses the tax code to break a table to convince Congress that the tax code needs simplification. It includes some monologuing about cutting capital gains taxes to encourage investment (something that sounds obvious, but is generally unsupported by evidence).

  23. Re:Appeal to authority is not good enough on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 3, Informative

    "A European schedule"?

    You are aware that Europe contains a great many countries, right?

    And that some countries (e.g. Belgium, Bulgaria) in Europe run faster schedules (vaccinations at 2, 3, and 4 months) than the USA does (which does vaccinations at 2, 4, and 6 months).

    Here's a handy summary of Europe's vaccine schedules. Compare it to the USA's schedule.

  24. Re:Why do people listen to her? on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Furthermore, if it's rubella and a pregnant woman gets it, the child is likely to have some of an array of birth defects.

  25. Re:Honest? on Canada Halts Online Tax Returns In Wake of Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    So my question is: Were the banks running older versions of OpenSSL that were unaffected, or did they patch the newest version of OpenSSL and renew their certs, or did they patch and not renew their certs?

    Or there's 4th option : They never used OpenSSL to start with. It's widely used, but it's hardly the only TLS implementation around.